Purple heart ceremony

Announcement

Seventh Annual Purple Heart Ceremony 

The combat wounded Patriots of Aaron A. Weaver Chapter 776 Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH) cordially invite all veterans and the public to attend the Seventh Annual Purple Heart Ceremony at the Florida National Guard Armory, Crystal River, 11 a.m., Saturday, February 18. 

The ceremony will commemorate the proud legacy of the Purple Heart and pay tribute to Florida’s fallen heroes of the Global War on Terror and America’s wounded warriors.  The ceremony will also feature the MOPH Department of Florida Afghanistan/Iraq War Memorial Portrait Mural. The mural honors over 300 Floridians who have fallen during the Afghanistan/Iraq campaigns and is the first memorial to bear both the engraved names and color portraits of those who fell.  Vocalists Paul and Jackie Stevio will provide patriotic music. 

For more information, visit the Chapter 776 web site at www.citruspurpleheart.org